“Please tell me, Brother Shaoyu.”
Chu Feng clasped his fists and said.
“Sigh, I didn’t expect you to be so stubborn.”
Seeing Chu Feng’s insistence, Fu Mo Shaoyu finally agreed to guide him.
However, before that, he needed to rescue the people from the death cell first.
In his view, saving Little Fish was a matter of life and death.
Not wanting to involve others, he planned to free the others before attempting the rescue.
During this process, Chu Feng learned that Fu Mo Shaoyu and Little Fish had only recently met.
They were friends.
It was precisely because of this acquaintance that Fu Mo Shaoyu couldn’t bear to watch Little Fish be captured by the Nether Ice Palace to be used as a cultivation resource, so he acted to save her.
Unfortunately, the rescue failed, and he ended up imprisoned in the death cell.
Based on Fu Mo Shaoyu’s understanding of the Nether Ice Palace’s master, if this rescue attempt failed again, they likely wouldn’t even get a chance to return to the death cell.
The palace master would directly refine them.
Chu Feng didn’t want Fu Mo Shaoyu to take the risk with him.
He only hoped Fu Mo Shaoyu would tell him the location of the main hall where Little Fish was held.
But unexpectedly, Fu Mo Shaoyu insisted on accompanying him, refusing to guide Chu Feng if he declined.
However, Fu Mo Shaoyu wanted Fu Mo Xin’er to leave.
He didn’t want to drag her into danger.
Yet Fu Mo Xin’er was adamant about joining them.
With no other choice, the three set out together.
Fortunately, with Chu Feng’s barrier technique, they evaded the guards’ eyes and smoothly entered the main hall.
The so-called main hall, though resplendent, was essentially a massive prison.
It housed those deemed important to the Nether Ice Palace.
But currently, it held only Little Fish.
Upon entering the main hall and seeing Little Fish, Chu Feng’s heart raced.
Little Fish was lying within a barrier formation, facing away from them.
The barrier was transparent, like crystal, allowing Chu Feng to clearly see her figure.
Though she faced away, obscuring her face, her posture was identical to the Little Fish he once knew.
Years had passed, and Chu Feng had changed greatly in both strength and appearance.
But time seemed to have left no mark on Little Fish.
The girl appeared unchanged.
In that moment, memories of the past flooded Chu Feng’s mind.
Just her silhouette pulled him back to those days.
“Big Brother, you’re here?”
Little Fish sensed their presence and quickly turned around.
But her gaze landed on Fu Mo Shaoyu.
She glanced at Chu Feng only briefly before her eyes passed over him.
Instead, she looked at Fu Mo Shaoyu with excitement and joy.
At that moment, the excitement on Chu Feng’s face faded.
Her silhouette was so similar, but the moment the girl turned around, Chu Feng knew she wasn’t the Little Fish he knew.
He had mistaken her for someone else.
“Not the one you know?”
A voice spoke, belonging to Fu Mo Xin’er.
While Chu Feng stared at the girl, Fu Mo Xin’er had been watching him.
From the shift in his expression, she could tell he had recognised the wrong person.
“No.”
Chu Feng shook his head, his face showing unmistakable disappointment.
Though his time with Little Fish had been brief, he truly wished to see her again.
He thought this wish might come true, but it was all for nothing.
Chu Feng felt he might never see that innocent, carefree girl again in his lifetime.
Such is life…
Some people appear briefly but leave a profound mark on your life.
Little Fish was one such person for Chu Feng.
“That girl must be very important to you.”
Fu Mo Xin’er remarked, her words tinged with a hint of jealousy.
Chu Feng didn’t hide it, nodding, “Very important.”
“You don’t have a thing for little girls, do you?”
“No wonder you’re not interested in me. Turns out you’re so perverse, you like kids.”
Suddenly, Fu Mo Xin’er said to Chu Feng with a look of disdain.
“What? I see her as a little sister, okay?”
“She’s a child. How could I like her that way?”
Chu Feng’s forehead creased with exasperation as he instinctively explained.
Meanwhile, Fu Mo Shaoyu was chatting warmly with the girl.
Though this wasn’t the Little Fish Chu Feng knew, she was also an innocent, lively girl.
Despite being imprisoned here as a cultivation resource for others, her face showed no trace of worry, as if nothing was wrong.
Clearly, she hadn’t grasped the danger.
At this moment, she was talking affectionately with Fu Mo Shaoyu.
Their bond was very close, somewhat reminiscent of the one between Little Fish and Chu Feng.
“Brother Chu Feng, this Little Fish isn’t the one you know, is she?”
Suddenly, Fu Mo Shaoyu, who had been comforting the girl, turned his gaze to Chu Feng.
“No.”
Chu Feng shook his head.
“Brother Chu Feng, are you… still willing to save her?”
When Fu Mo Shaoyu said this, his eyes were full of pleading.
He didn’t say it outright, but he desperately hoped Chu Feng would help rescue the girl.
“It seems, Brother Shaoyu, you never gave up on saving her from the start.”
“You didn’t want to save her earlier because you wanted to trick me and your sister into leaving, then come back alone, right?”
Chu Feng said.
He could tell from Fu Mo Shaoyu’s emotions at that moment.
In Fu Mo Shaoyu’s heart, this girl was also extremely important.
With such feelings laid bare, he couldn’t stand by and do nothing.
“I originally planned to have my grandmother come to save her.”
“But since she didn’t, I didn’t want to drag others into this.”
“However, my strength is limited, and the formation trapping Little Fish is too difficult to break.”
“If Brother Chu Feng is willing to help, I, Fu Mo Shaoyu, would be endlessly grateful.”
“But this place is too dangerous. The Nether Ice Palace’s master could enter at any moment.”
“So if Brother Chu Feng isn’t willing to help, I won’t blame you at all.”
Fu Mo Shaoyu said.
“Don’t worry, I can save her.”
Chu Feng wasn’t one to ignore someone in need.
In fact, he hadn’t acted earlier because he was observing the formation, searching for a way to break it.
Now, having found a method, Chu Feng immediately began setting up a formation.
The formation imprisoning the girl was extremely powerful, sustained by the energy of an ancient treasure, so even for Chu Feng, breaking it would take time.
In the end, it took him a full hour to set up a grand formation.
And it took another two hours for that formation to finally break the one holding the girl.
When the girl stepped out of the formation, Chu Feng could see that both Fu Mo Shaoyu and Fu Mo Xin’er were drenched in cold sweat.
Even Chu Feng himself was soaked in sweat.
For three whole hours, a master from the Nether Ice Palace could have entered at any moment.
Due to the unique nature of this place, if anyone came in, Chu Feng and the others would surely be discovered.
That would likely mean death.
Such suspense was indeed torturous.
But fortunately, they succeeded.
After succeeding, Chu Feng and the others didn’t linger, quickly taking the girl and leaving the main hall.
However, just as they exited, a powerful force descended from the sky.
It pierced through heaven and earth, sealing all directions like a death cell, trapping Chu Feng and the others in place.
At the same time, a cold voice boomed in their ears.
“Bold thieves, daring to steal my property. You’re truly courting death.”
Hearing this voice, Chu Feng and the others felt their hearts sink.
They suddenly realised they had been tricked.
For three hours, they had successfully broken the formation.
But they hadn’t gone unnoticed.
Clearly, they had been discovered long ago.
The enemy was merely waiting for them to come out before capturing them.
